ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

1 - Appreciate existence 2 - Decide to be happy (decide that you would like to be happy, then look for reasons and methods to make that happen - see #3) 3 - Find a ton of reasons to be happy - easy to do, they are all around - in past, present, and the possible futures 4 - Take action that leads to results that make you happy 5 - Be happy Hope everyone has a great holiday season! - Sujewa

Started work on a new film - a sci-fi comedy feature, no budget (but awesome) called Agnes the Alien .  Here is the Facebook page for the movie -  https://www.facebook.com/agnesthealienmovie/ . We hope to finish shooting the film and edit it by the end of January and start sending it out to film festivals in February. Werewolf Ninja Philosopher update - We did 1 make up test on 12/1.  Prepping for another one.  Other prep work continues until the end of Feb.  We hope to shoot in March, and edit and complete in April and start sending the movie out to film festivals in April. Breakthrough Weekend update - BW got a great review from Village Voice back in 2014, and it played the Breakthrough Festival NYC at Anthology Film Archives in 2014, and now the new version of the movie is almost done.  We hope to release it on Vimeo and then on other platforms at the end of December. Brooklyn Fantastic will be edited this winter and sent out to festivals this winter.  More info on that mo

* what do you know of water's worth while standing on the banks of the euphrates from Amir Motlagh on Vimeo . *

Tried out a new camera for a bit a few nights ago.  The Panasonic VX981 - a baby 4K camera/palmcorder.  Pretty good.  Here are some night time footage, w/ very little post work (some exposure correction, increased saturation).  Much better footage coming in the near future as I get to know this camera better.  Also looking forward to trying out the JVC 170 camera. Sunset Park At Night (camera test Panasonic VX981) from Sujewa Ekanayake on Vimeo .

1977 Interview with Eric Rohmer from zenfoolio on Vimeo .

The always excellent indie film podcast Filmwax Radio, created by Adam Schartoff, wants to step up their game and cover 365 indie films in 2018.  Plus Schartoff is launching a set of new projects that he calls Filmwax Radio 2.0 - find out more about those at the Filmwax Radio Kickstarter. * Here's Schartoff on the Filmwax Kickstarter and Filmwax Radio 2.0 project: * Help make it happen for Filmwax Radio - go check out the Kickstarter campaign , donate, share. - Sujewa

Note - I saw the movie before the Dustin Hoffman sex assault allegations story broke.  Not sure what kind of an experience I would have had watching the movie had I knew about the allegations. * Great movie, well written, well acted.  An interesting NYC experience. Trailer -  Check out the movie at Netflix -  https://www.netflix.com/title/80174434